#born on samhain like a champ

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i’d like to announce it’s merlin’s 1500-something birthday tomorrow.

#𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 ; nerd central. #probably like 1520-1530s ish #born on samhain like a champ #anyway hello i'm a wee bit sick but !!

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So our big announcement... Kizzie is a mama!!! To one HUGE, incredible pup.

Introducing Ripley! Registered name Samhain’s Believe it or Not... born June 25th!

Kizzie only conceived one pup (and a MASSIVE one at that...) and after 12 hours of pre-labor with not a single contraction, we checked her color and she was pasty white. Cue a trip to the emergency animal hospital for an emergency c-section and the longest few hours of my entire life. 

Kizzie pulled through it like a champ, and is still doing wonderfully!! As is baby Ripley, all 30+ ounces of her at only 1 week old (she was 1.2 POUNDS at birth!)

Now, to most, Ripley simply looks like a black and white, massive singleton puppy... but she’s so much more. She’s a genetic anomaly.

See, Ripley’s sire is a homozygous merle. He is ONLY supposed to be able to produce blue merle offspring, and he has 30+ attesting to that.

Ripley is the only one he has produced in 11 years that isn’t blue. she is, statistically, supposed to be impossible. We’re excited to have DNA tests done to see if she is genetically a merle (making her a cryptic merle) or just a miraculous chance.  

Regardless, what matters is that Kizzie and her baby are both doing wonderfully! <3 

#kismet cardi #ripley #Cardigan Welsh Corgi #snoot